Food & Nutrition: Culinary Techniques, Diets & Metabolic Health

Nutritional health is achieved through the therapeutic use of whole foods, safe culinary preparation, and understanding the metabolic impacts of specific dietary frameworks and ingredients.

Beef Sirloin

Cuts of Steak With the Least Calories

Lean cuts of steak contain nearly the same amount of fat, saturated fat and cholesterol-per-serving as boneless, skinless chicken breasts. In addition, lean steak has only slightly more calories in a 3-ounce serving than cooked chicken.

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How to Cook a Chicago-Style Steak

A Chicago-style steak is charred on the surface and cooked to your desired doneness on the inside, according to The BBQ Experiment. Any type of steak can be prepared Chicago-style, though it's best to choose lean cuts such as strip steak or T-bone steak.

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How to Replace Eggs With Bananas in Cake Mix

Discover how to make delicious cakes without using eggs. Learn the steps to replace eggs with bananas in your favorite cake mix, and find out why this method is perfect for vegans and those on a cholesterol-restricted diet.

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Nutritional Facts for Homemade Split Pea Soup

A 1-cup serving of canned, ready-to-eat split pea soup may contain as much as 965 milligrams of sodium, or over 40 percent of the 2,300-milligram daily sodium limit recommended for healthy adults. By preparing split pea soup at home, you can significantly decrease the amount of sodium per serving.

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How to Prepare Beef Kidney

Organ meats like beef kidneys aren't popular in the United States, though French chef and cookbook author Jacques Pepin says that kidneys can be a tender and flavorful cut if prepared correctly. Unlike lamb or veal kidneys, beef kidneys are large and tough and require long braising over low, moist heat to become soft.

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How to Pre-Cook Bacon a Day Before Serving

Bacon can be time-consuming -- and messy -- to prepare for a large breakfast or brunch get-together. By precooking the bacon the day before, however, you can serve a large amount, without the hassle of preparing the bacon as your guests arrive.

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healthy baked chicken breast with vegetables

Nutrition of a Chicken Fillet

In 2013, chicken became more popular than beef in the United States for the first time in a century, with the average American consuming 60 pounds annually.

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Toast, coffee and fruit for breakfast

Birmingham Cardiac Diet

A diet that promises quick weight loss, doesn't encourage exercise and requires followers to stick to restrictive, nutritionally unsound meal plans is a fad diet you should avoid, advises the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

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Elderberry

Vitamins for B Positive Blood Type

In 1996, Peter J. D'Adamo's book "Eat Right 4 Your Type: The Individualized Diet Solution to Staying Healthy, Living Longer & Achieving Your Ideal Weight" introduced dieters to the Blood Type diet, a health and weight management plan based on your blood type: A, B, AB or O.

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soup is good for you

Hot & Sour Soup for Colds

No medication can cure a cold, but some foods have properties that may help alleviate some people's symptoms. Chinese hot and sour soup could be one of these, says "Daily Herald" writer M.

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bio cocktail green and yallow smoothie

Yellow Pea Protein Powder

In 2008, consumers spent more than $2 billion on fitness supplements like protein powder, reports the "New York Times." One such powder is pea protein powder.

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Cabbage salad

Dolly Parton's Cabbage Soup Diet

In the 1980s, a strict diet supposedly used by country music singer Dolly Parton became popular under a number of names, including the cabbage soup diet, the Sacred Heart Hospital diet and the Mayo Clinic diet.

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Mushroom Egg Benedict sandwich

What Should I Eat on the Loading Days of the hCG Diet?

The hCG diet requires followers to consume only 500 calories a day while taking daily injections or drops of the pregnancy hormone human chorionic gonadotropin, or hCG. Prior to starting, the diet calls for a two-day "loading"

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How to Cook Weisswurst

Weisswurst is a traditional Bavarian sausage that gets its name -- white sausage -- from its pale appearance. Prepared from pork and veal heavily seasoned with parsley, onions, bacon, lemon powder, salt and pepper, weisswurst is sold pre-cooked and needs only to be heated through before eating.

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Problems With EAS Whey Protein

Americans spend over $2 billion annually on high-protein dietary supplements, reported The New York Times in 2010. EAS 100 Percent Whey Protein Powder, which promises to help you build lean muscle faster, is one example. As a supplement, it's not regulated by the U.S.

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Senior African couple at breakfast table

Healthy Menu Diet Plans for a 70-Year-Old Couple

As you age, it's important that your daily meals are low in fat, refined sugar and sodium, and high in essential nutrients such as fiber, vitamins and minerals. Doing so may help you avoid gout, stroke, high blood pressure, heart disease arthritis, cancer, respiratory disorders, obesity and type 2 diabetes.

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Orange with Almond Nuts

The Ab Diet Meal Plan

Eat some "power foods" every time you eat and you'll lose weight, gain lean muscle and have better sex, claims David Zinczenko, "Men's Health" editor-in-chief and author of "The Abs Diet."

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Rainbow Chard

Rainbow Chard Nutritional Value

Rainbow chard is the common name used to describe chard that has a variety of bright yellow, red, orange and purple stalks in each bunch.

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Raw salmon fish fillet with fresh herbs

Diet for B Negative Blood Type

People who follow the Blood Type Diet, developed by naturopath Peter J. D'Adamo, believe you can lose weight, become more energetic and enhance your health by eating foods specified for your particular blood type.

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